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From: GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: PC-NFS and 386SXs
Message-ID: <557@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 13 Feb 90 21:55:02 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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We are having problems with PC-NFS and all of our 386SX machines.  All of
these machines have Expanded Memory, a 2Meg machine being the smallest
configuration we can buy.

We make extensive use of Russ Nelson's Freemacs editor but have found
that when editting files on network drives the machines hang when the
file is saved.  This does not happen on any other type of machine and
does not always happen on the 386SXs either.  The frequency of hangs is
probably about 80% of saves.

Russ has been very helpful at trying to help us solve this problem as we
haven't found any other software which fails.  However, it is starting to
look like the problem is not Freemacs but PC-NFS.  We run the BLIP option
of PC-NFS all the time as an indication of network activity.  When one
types the ^X^S, the BLIP blinks a couple of times then comes on solid -
the machine is now hung.  Russ assures me that Freemacs is doing all of
its IO through standard DOS calls.

Has anyone experienced any kind of problem with PC-NFS and 386SX
machines, or had specific applications that seem to fail in this
configuration.  My suspisions are that PC-NFS may be having a problem
with the Expanded memory, why or how I have no idea.
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  Glen Eustace, Software Manager, Computer Centre, Massey University,
   Palmerston North, New Zealand. Phone: +64 63 69099 x7440 GMT+12
             E-Mail via Internet: G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz
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